Tag: romance
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LAND TENDED SINCE TIME BEGAN
Fields fertilised with blood from executed men Bloodmade mire, fen eels who tasted flesh In sight of verididerm Osiris Irish farmers plant Yankee praties in shallow lazy beds In sallow sedge, on the scarcest cragged edge of liveable land Upward tending land blasted with stone Handing over to rootless mountains of height beyond accounting Stickish,…
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Art Urian
Before toilet-named Merlin averted Irish stone to Avebury Before Arthur wielded king blade a lake lady had given him He owned favour, loud céilí at Camelot Suffering also, even at breast, fakery and deception Arthur’s Lady Guinevere, fairest ere of Albion Heir to a holy holly king’s love, eloped with Launcelot In shaded glades graced…
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Puck Fair Puck Head Off
Number one, King Pecker Dunne If Spotify had him, England’d be didded gone inside an hour Power of sixty minutes each pushing around the circumference of Cronos’ slavery orange All is aflower Hours since sense last spoken, sentences rewinding like snagged reels Reaching pure sentiment, telling everyone how much they mean Talking about reinstating royal…
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Eastern Dreams of Sand-Strewn Elysium
Near the eyrie of a minaret from where mage-capped ziggurats are miniscule Teacher pupil school: Fisher hauls in his net His son grabs one end to help A hundred mackerel a cast eye assumes. Up here flies zooming like flying carpets, city rotting carapace of a dog carcass Catacombs to ark ever-mounting bones resemble halls…
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Prayer to Love
Now I write of things pleasant, cleanse my palette of death’s mention An ode to love tender and long lasting, varied and sensual, mysterious Tension of a life spent in willing company, the will subdued but the heart freed Of its foremost need, that deed once signed marks a love that should shine eternal A…
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